Posted by bleauberry on February 17, 2009, at 18:03:47
In reply to Re: No Evidence For Chronic Lymes Disease, posted by bulldog2 on February 16, 2009, at 8:24:02
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> You are wrong about chronic lyme's. It can also mean after treatment with antibiotic that some bacteria remain and harbor in the body and continue to cause symtoms on and off for eternity.True. Very deceptive organism it is. It hides and mutates well. That's why some people need to "pulse" their antibiotics and others may need maintenance doses for life to keep the organisms in "jail". Neither of these methods were tested. So while they work miracles in the real world, they haven't been done by pinhead scientists.
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> As far as never being treated. If you test positive on Elisa or Western blot than get treated. If you don't test positive than I wouldn't get treated.Totally false. The above tests are only accurate about 40% of the time. Today's medical profession does not have a reliable test. Those tests are also only specific to a particular pathogen, not all of the dozens of mutations and co-infectors that have been identified.
If you have symptoms, test negative, but every other alternative cause has been throughly ruled out, you have to try Tetracycline. Simply as a diagnostic tool if nothing else.
>Our bodies do have immune systems that are capable of fighting of pathogens.We are invaded by bacteria every day and fight them off.
If this were true, then I could name off about a dozen common diseases that are pathogen based, such as sexual diseases as just one example, in which the immune system failed. Our immune system is pretty good, but it is no match for certain pathogens.
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